Furnace Mill Fishery

It has been hot at the Furnace this week with lots of fish being caught on the pellet on all the pools. The most productive way of presenting your bait is to plumb the depth accurately and have your bait just touching the bottom and then feed little and often.  Some people see fish on the top or near the surface but this is only a tiny fraction of the population. If you want to fish up in the water you can adopt a different approach to encourage the fish to compete for the feed shallow, but you must get the feed pattern right, as all the really big bags of fish between 100 lbs and 200 lbs are caught with bait fished at exact depth.
Steve Barnes from Dudley had non-stop action on peg 10 on Furnace landing 80 carp between 3 and 8 lb.

This weekend we had a Saturday Open and with 25 taking part it was on Mucky Meadow and Furnace Pools and split into 4 sections.  Weights were evenly spread around the pools but the lower numbers on Furnace possibly had the edge producing 3 in the top 8.  Fish were up in the water and in the margins falling to feed pellet fed little and often with meat fished over the top.

For the second week on the trot the heavens opened during the Sunday Open at Furnace Mill Fishery but the fish were feeding well with the top 11 anglers out of the 25 that took part catching over 80 lb.  In first place was Steve Harris, Daiwa Gordon League, with 158 lb 6 oz of carp which he caught on peg 50 on Mucky Meadow. Furnace Pool provided the next 7 weights with Colin Matthews, Furnace Mill, coming 2nd with 114 lb 10 oz from the popular peg 5.